Genetics of type 1 diabetes: Similarities and differences between Asian and Caucasian populations

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1079, Issue , 2006, Pages 51-59

  Ikegami, Hiroshi ^a,b   Fujisawa, Tomomi ^a   Kawabata, Yumiko ^a,b   Noso, Shinsuke ^a   Ogihara, Toshio ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; CTLA4; Genetics; HLA; INS; PTPN22; SUMO4; Type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; HLA ANTIGEN; INSULIN; SUMO 4 PROTEIN; SUMO PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ASIAN; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; THYROID DISEASE;

EID: 33845693567     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1375.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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